Weekend Confirmed 153 - PlayStation 4 announcements, Year Walk, Crysis 3

Garnett, you are not plugged into the PS3 community at all if you think we would celebrate them moving the R3 stick.

I'm a PC gamer, and I use a 360 controller when I play certain games on the PC. But my favorite controller is still the Dualshock 2 (didn't like the new triggers on the Dualshock 3 but eventually got used to them).

While I rrespect your preference, most of my friends are partial to the Dualshock... And I suspect Sony knows this.

I think some of the criticisms were a bit nitpicky considering that this reveal is a good 9-10 months before the console's release. I was very excited with what they had on tap... the only part of the conference that was off for me was Media Molecule's presentation... I also wasn't interested in D3 coming to PS4. But I just think Diablo belongs on PC.

You guys had like four days to research and look up things before doing this podcast and yet you all still came into this without knowing so many things.

- The fact that no one brought up that Killzone and DriveClub were running off of 4 GB ram instead of 8 is ridiculous.

- The way Garnett seems to think that this is an E3 event when it was actually an investor and developer event makes him look immature. Just because you found the architecture and developer talk boring, it doesn't mean that the intended audience did.

- Garnett contradicts himself a few times, but the most noticeable was when they were all talking about being honest and showing proper footage but then he wants made up videos of games that obviously aren't ready to show.

- Guys, PAX, E3, GDC, Gamescom and TGS are coming, the have so many venues throughout the year to announce new things and to go into greater detail on their features.

- Everyone thought this event would be a 20 minute announcement with a video reel and a tech demo, but instead it turns out to be so much more and yet the press act like there isn't enough. This is an announcement, its not a showcase, we were lucky to get as much info as we got.

- The fact that a PS3 or 360 can use 512MB of ram and still get close to matching a middle end PC is amazing after seven years, the PS4 is so much more powerful and yet everyone seems to think it won't do the same thing as every other console in the past. 8 GB of ram for a console means so much more than 8 GB for a PC.

I can go on and on, but I think I made my point. The gaming press has become far to skeptical about everything, they have become a hive mind that bases their wants and predictions around companies like Apple. I honestly believe that most of the press are getting close to 30 years of age, thinking of different things, having more responsibilities and so have less time for games, which then leads them to be more negative about the industry.

I've seen this with the PS3, every Nintendo console, the VITA and now the PS4. Microsoft doesn't catch as much flak, not really sure why considering they haven't lead in sales for three years, have and promote bad consumer practices, have had little to no creative games come out and obviously have taken a stance against gamers and have gone for a different market, which I guess is the market that a lot of the press has turned into.

Awesome episode guys. Nailed the PS4 event.

I also forgot to mention that Sony's stock rose 2.42 percent after the meeting, Spicer was wrong, the only time it dropped was before the conference by 1 percent.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-02-21-sony-stock-rises-on-ps4-news

Always surprised to hear people say "well graphics can only get so much better". We are not even close to the ceiling, all the proof you need is sitting right there in Hollywood. AVATAR, TRANSFORMERS, various assortment of Pixar titles. Visual effects in movies are the bar games should aspire to. It's what SONY claimed they were after back in the PS1 days. Being content with the quality of graphics in today's games is different with promoting the idea that we've hit some sort of technical limit. That idea is utter nonsense.

Coolest aspect and the one sure to be more hype than reality is streaming games. Amazing that SONY will allow it, but just like 4K, it's a bandwidth problem. Even on my FIOS connection streaming GBs of games is not yet a reality. Maybe if I splurged for the $100 a month broadband package, or if Google Fiber somehow gets traction (it almost certainly will not in the next three years) it would be, but I doubt it.

The whole idea of "not owning" stuff because it's all cloud based is such an old man's thought process. Welcome to the future of ALL mediums. Downloads are the future, iTunes is huge, Spotify which can be argued grants you even LESS ownership of content is huge. My generation (I'm 21) and the one coming behind me aren't interested in storing discs all over the place, give me a file and let me archive it somewhere where I don't have to worry about it.

Overall I'm extraordinarily excited for next generation. A lot of people have been overtly cynical of this press event. "Where's the box?!" "What's the price point?" "The controller is stupid?" "Oh the graphics don't look that much better than current gen!" It's February. It's early. I'm more optimistic than usual because it appears SONY is really listening to developers. This is a beautiful shift for the company and I'm hopeful that it will lead to better experiences for all.

Good talk all around. One main issue I had that rubbed me wrong though

Was it really necessary to get all cynical and snarky about Media Molecule? What they shown is only in early development so who knows where it'll end up. I get the skepticism that's associated with "none gamer" games, but I for one am looking forward to see how they will use this to maybe bring something meaningful to the Move.

Really Mr. Garnett Lee. Out of all the video games development studios, MM is the last one to be cynical and slightly snarky about.

The Square Enix part was definitely the low point of the conference but over all it got me pretty hyped for the PS4.

That's probably due to the core approach they took, I really won't be all that excited if Microsoft comes out and goes into how they want to be the living room box again. As for them opening with games... What al could they even show, exclusive wise? I don't think Gears or even Halo can get me excited anymore. Both of those series have run out of steam.

I'm more likely to build a killer PC to have along side a PS4 then I am to get the next xbox, but we'll see.

thanks for bringing up the games media compared to games journalism on the show Spicer, and all the rest for discussing it.

thanks for a great listen again, appreciate it!